The smokeless tobacco industry quietly but dramatically increased its lobby spending in first quarter 2006 as proposals to increase tobacco taxes smoldered in Austin. Updated data since last week’s Lobby Watch issue analyzing tobacco lobby data filed by New Year’s 2006 show that the tobacco industry as a whole increased its lobby spending 4 percent in the first quarter of this year.
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